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Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'
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Posted on 08/05/2013 9:11:45 AM PDT by Java4Jay
TOKYO (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency". Contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge. Countermeasures planned by Tokyo Electric Power Co are only a temporary solution.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; japan
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To: Alamo-Girl
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posted on
08/08/2013 11:39:37 AM PDT
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Larousse2
(The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Smokin' Joe
You are correct! I am watching the events unfold at:
Energy News
You hear Benzene is coming out of the Louisiana sinkhole?
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posted on
08/08/2013 11:44:17 AM PDT
by
Larousse2
(The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Larousse2
Oddly enough, the benzene could be natural.
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posted on
08/08/2013 2:19:29 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Java4Jay
They just figured it out? We knew this a year ago. You don’t suppose for a single minute that they knew it too?
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posted on
08/08/2013 2:22:08 PM PDT
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Veto!
(Opinions freely expressed as advice)
To: Smokin' Joe
I wouldn’t want to be around it!
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posted on
08/09/2013 6:27:13 AM PDT
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Larousse2
(The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Larousse2
I wouldn’t want to be around it!Nope, and if you stay there too long, it might be around you (the sinkhole, that is).
Actually, years of working on oil rigs disclose the simple fact that most of the places which seem nice now have been for most of their existence incredibly hostile environments for humans; those environments reflected in the rocks laid down in them.
There are still many awesome and often beautiful places on Earth it would be extraordinarily difficult or impossible to live.
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posted on
08/09/2013 6:51:42 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe; All; LucyT; Alamo-Girl; MestaMachine; bamahead; ExTexasRedhead
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08/09/2013 2:05:55 PM PDT
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Larousse2
(The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Larousse2
To: Java4Jay; Smokin' Joe; All; LucyT; Alamo-Girl; MestaMachine; bamahead; ExTexasRedhead
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08/10/2013 7:40:47 AM PDT
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Larousse2
(The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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